PLYMOUTH Devonshire
& its Merchants
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The Merchants House Plymouth
New Lands , New Fortunes
In 1497 John Cabot discovered Newfoundland with its rich stocks of fish. From then on fishermen from Plymouth fished off the coast of Newfoundland, crossing thew stormy Atlantic in their small fishing boats every spring & returning in the autumn .
Plymouth was the port of origin of many of the explorations undertaken at that time. An Expedition to Newfoundland was led by Sir Humphrey Gilbert of Compton Castle, with Captain William Wynter, Robert Davis the navigator of Sandridge Barton nr Stoke Gabriel , Edward Hayes, Richard Clarke, William Cox, Captain Cade, Thomas Edmondes, Thomas Aldworth, Gilbert Staplehill.
The Barbican Plymouth
Although brilliant & creative Gilbert was also arrogant, unpredictable and a poor leader . He failed to establish the first permanent English colony in North America. In 1578 Queen Elizabeth granted him a six-year charter to settle “heathen lands not actually possessed of any Christian prince or people.” Sailing from Plymouth on June 11, 1583, he arrived at St Johns Newfoundland on August 3 and claimed St Johns, Newfoundland & the lands 600 miles around it in Elizabeth I name. Three fo the ships sailed on, southwards but the largest of them was lost on August 29 and two days later Gilbert turned homeward. Gilbert was last seen during a great storm in the Atlantic, shouting to his companion vessel, “We are as near heaven by sea as by land.” His ship was then swallowed by the sea.
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The History of Plymouth in Devonshire extends back to the Bronze Age, when the first settlement began at Mount Batten the peninsula in Plymouth Sound facing onto the English Channel.
It continued as both a fishing and continental tin trading port through the late Iron Age into the Early Medieval period, until the more prosperous Saxon settlement of Sutton, later renamed Plymouth, surpassed it. With its natural harbour and open access to the Atlantic, the town found wealth and a national strategic importance during the establishment of British naval dominance in the colonisation of the New World.
In 1620 the Pilgrim Fathers departed from Plymouth to establish the second English colony in America.
During the English Civil War the town was besieged between 1642 and 1646 by the Royalists, but after the Restoration a Dockyard was established in the nearby town of Devonport (later amalgamated with Plymouth).
Throughout the Industrial Revolution Plymouth grew as a major mercantile shipping industry, including imports and passengers from the US.
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Devonport grew as a naval base and ship construction town, building battleships for the Royal Navy –
The presence of the Naval Dockyard led to the partial destruction of the city during World War II . The air-raids known were known as the Plymouth Blitz.
After the war was over, the city centre was completely rebuilt to a new plan.
WWII The city of Plymouth, with its important Naval Dockyard, was heavily bombed during WWII causing 1,174 civilians deaths and much of the city obliterated .
In 1624 Leonard Pomeroy, Mayor and the Aldermen of Plymouth, received a legacy of £20 bequeathed by Edmund Lunis late of Plymouth, to the poor people of the newly erected Hospital of the Orphans Aid.
After WWII & the extensive bombing Plymouth endured there are still remnants of the orphanage to be found in Basket Street in the Barbican
Leonard Pomeroy, Merchant Adventurer, became one of the benefactor's of the Hospital and Workhouse in Plymouth. A Coat of Arms installed in the meeting room of the Workhouse, circa 1630, of the Benefactors included an "undifferenced" coat of Pomeroy, of Berry Pomeroy.
2023 Dec 24th
This record is the most intriguing & we've known about it for some time Leonard Pomeroy Knight 1607
Ref 1/642/45 Title: Plymouth Borough records:
Legal Case, Leonard Pomeroy
Description: Leonard Pomeroy of Cornwall, Knight, heard before John Trelawney and John Martin.
Admin History: Date: 29 May 1607 Level: Item Format: Manuscript
Saltash at that time was in Devon although nearby Landrake was in Cornwall.
Repository: Plymouth Archives, The Box
Ref 1/360/27
Title: Plymouth Borough records: Copy Letter from Leonard Pomeroy, Mayorof Plymouth, to Maurice Abbot, Governor of East India Merchants Company, regarding Legacy of Edmund Leunis to newly erected Hospital of the Orphans Aid
description: From Leonard Pomeroy, Mayor and the Aldermen of Plymouth, to the Right Worshipful Morris [Maurice] Abbot, Governor of the East India Merchants Company, regarding the legacy of £20 bequeathed by Edmund Leunis late of Plymouth, to the poor people of the newly erected Hospital of the Orphans Aid.
Admin History: Date: 19 Jul 1624 Level: Item Format: Manuscript
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1/642/9 Plymouth Borough records: House near the Church in Lane leading towards The Beacon [on the Hoe], Details of Lease 17th century
Repository: Plymouth Archives, The Box: Ref 1/642/9. 29 May 1607
Title: Plymouth Borough records: House near the Church in Lane leading towards The Beacon [on the Hoe], Details of Lease
description: Rough details re a lease from Henry Wallis Leonard [Pomeroy A?] Anthony to Mathias Nichols for his life of a dwelling house at the west end of the town near the Church in a lane leading towards the beacon commonly called [blank] late in the tenure and occupation of John Jope deceased and Mrs Bridget Heale late wife of Thomas Heale of Fleet, esquire, deceased.
Admin History: Date: 17th century Level: Item Format: Manuscript
1/642/45 Plymouth Borough records: Legal Case, Leonard Pomeroy 29 May 1607
Repository: Plymouth Archives, The Box. Ref 1/356/63 Title: Plymouth Borough records: court record, John Thake versus Willlam Dabell
description: John Thake and Joan his wife, administratrix of goods and chattels of Leonard Barkested, deceased v William Dabell and Margaret his wife. Debt: a press, tables forms. Note: this document is too fragile to be viewed.
Admin History: Date: 1604 Level: Item Format: Manuscript
Repository: Plymouth Archives, The Box : Ref 1/1
Title: Plymouth Borough records: Letters Patent, Queen Mary Charter
description: Incorporating the town of Sutton Prior, the tithing of Sutton Raf, parcel of hamlet of Sutton Vautort and a parcel of the tithing of Compton, into the Borough of Plymouth, with a Mayor and Commonalty for ever. [Unfortunately none of the original medieval charters for Plymouth have survived. This is the oldest original charter, dated 11 May 1554, originally in the possession of the Corporation and it is illuminated. Also referred to as the Queen Mary charter].
Admin History: Unlike other boroughs Plymouth was first made corporate by Act of Parliament. In 1411 the inhabitants of Sutton Prior and Sutton Vautort has petitioned Parliament for the right to elect a mayor, but the petition was not given royal assent until November 1439. The Act of Incorporation, a later abstract, made Plymouth a free borough, incorporated with one mayor and one community, with perpetual succession and a common seal, capable of owning land and of suing and being sued. The Act also sets out the boundaries of the borough and names the first mayor, William Keterigge.
The Queen Mary Charter, dated 11 May 1554, is the earliest surviving charter for the town of Plymouth. In 1549 the Western Rebels assaulted Plymouth and the irreverant act of a Totnes merchant set fire to the chest of documents in the Council Chamber in 1602.
Each of these acts ensured the loss of previous town charters and confirmations.
The 1554 Charter was the last of the confirmations of King Henry VI's charter, and was the last occasion on which Plymouth obtained a confirmation as soon as possible after a new sovereign's accession.
Date: 11 May 1554 Level: Item; Format: Manuscript
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Ref 1/356/108
Title: Plymouth Borough records: court record, Leonard Pomeroy versus Edward Backstar
description: Leonard Pomerye v Edward Backstar of Plymouth, merchant. Debt: money due on return of 'Anne' of Plymouth from Newfoundland, master Thomas Mylberrye.
Admin History: Date: 1605 Level: Item Format: Manuscript
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Repository: Plymouth Archives, The Box
Ref 1/642/45
Title: Plymouth Borough records: Legal Case, Leonard Pomeroy
description: Leonard Pomeroy of Cornwall, Knight, heard before John Trelawney and John Martin.
Admin History:
Date: 29 May 1607 Level: Item Format: Manuscript
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Repository: Plymouth Archives, The Box
Ref 1/361/63/1-4
Title: Plymouth Borough records: Death of Leonard Pomeroy, Accounts, including Newfoundland and Virginian Fish, and also Sugar
description: Accounts of receipts and disbursements. Also a list of debts due to him and unpaid bills, with references to "dry newland fish" [Newfoundland] and Virginia fish, sugar and also the billeting of soldiers.
Admin History: Date: 1628 Level: Item Format: Manuscript
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Repository: Plymouth Archives, The Box
Ref 1/355/43
Title: Plymouth Borough records: court record, William Pomeroy versus Walter Carkeet
description: William Pomeroie [Pomeroy] esquire v Walter Carkitt [Carkett], merchant. Trespass on the case (sale of a ship called the 'Peyrlese' worth 110 pounds).
Admin History: Date: 1594 Level: Item Format: Manuscript
The New World Awaited
The New World Awaited
First Expedition to Roanoke in 1585 led by Sir Walter Raleigh, Philip Amadas, William Grenville, John Wood, Richard Hakluyt, Henry Greene, William Sanderson, Josias Calmady, John Dee, Thomas Harriot, John Sparke.
Ultimately the project was a failure and Roanoke is one of the enduring mysteries of early colonisation.
In Plymouth fishing was the most important industry. However many other goods were imported into Plymouth such as wine, fruit, sugar and paper from France and Spain.
In 1641 a writer said that Plymouth was 'chiefly dependent on the fish trade'. In the early 16th century Plymouth probably had a population of about 3,500. By the time of the Spanish Armada (1588) the population had risen to about 5,000.
By the time of the civil war in 1642 its population probably surpassed 7,000. By the standards of the time Plymouth was quite a large town.
There was also a coastal trade. Ships brought goods from other parts of England to Plymouth. Coal was brought by ship from Newcastle and grain from Eastern England. Hemp for rope making was imported from the Baltic. Hops were imported from Holland. Wool and tin were exported through Plymouth.
Leonard & Abraham were Merchants of Plymouth & financed the beginnings of a fishing plantation on Richmond's Island in Maine where Leonard later owned land .
In 1590 Sir Francis Drake built a conduit , a leat, to bring water off Dartmoor and into Plymouth. However like all towns at that time Plymouth suffered from outbreaks of plague, which killed a large part of the population each time it struck. There was a particularly severe outbreak in 1627. However the population of Plymouth always recovered.
1590 Walterus Pepperel merchant: " This yere on the *1 daye of December Sr Fraunces Drake kneight, beganne to bringe the Ryur (River) Meue to the towne of Plymmouthe wch greate care and diligence effected pfrmed and brought the Riur into the towne the xxiiijth day of Aprill the next after psentlie after he sett in hand to Build sixe greast (grist or corn) milles, two at wythy in Eckbuckland pish, (Eggbuckland Parish) thother by the towne the two att wythy and the two next to the towne he fullie fynisshed befor michelmas next after and grounde corne wth theym Also in this yere diuers conveyaunces were made wt>hin the said towne for convayeng the forsaid Ryur elong
Built to last -Drake's Leat today
Black Book of Plymouth
Black Book of Plymouth
1603-04 James Mayne
Itm paide to John Woulcombe towardes the amendinge of new bridge which the leate brake down 3 pounds, six shillings and eight pence.
This Mr Drake must paye
This marginal note indicates that there was some agreement that the maintenance of this bridge would be a Drake responsibility. Perhaps the bridge was on Drake property and may have been included on Sir Francis Drake's original or subsequent transactions
Itm paide for a dynner for Sr John Hele Mr Crymes and Mr Drake when they were here about the water Course - £5
William Crymes owned the manor of Crapstone Barton. His land bordered Buckland. Crymes and Sir Francis seemed to have coexisted in harmony. However, Crymes and Thomas seemed to have been in subsequent continuous dispute over land tenure and the leat.]
Plymouth, like all towns at that time, suffered from outbreaks of plague, which killed a large part of the population each time it struck. In 1627 there was a particularly severe outbreak.
In 1620 The Mayflower and the Speedwell set sail for the New world carrying the Pilgrim Fathers
On the whole I leave the genealogy of American Pomeroys to others & in particular the history of the colonist
You can find research from fellow Pomeroy researcher AML here & here
Having embarked from Southampton the Pilgrim Fathers put in to Dartmouth's Bayard's Cove, before stopping at Plymouth, their last landfall, before the New World.
They stopped off at Plymouth because their ship was taking in water but after many delay the Mayflower and the Speedwell set off on their journey on 20 August 1620.
They were about 300 miles west of Land's End When they realised Speedwell was unseaworthy. The ship returned to Plymouth and the Mayflower departed alone taking 120 very ill prepared and ill equipped pilgrims on their 65 day voyage to America.
The Mayflower completed the crossing to Cape Cod which became Dartmouth's sister city - Dartmouth, Massachusetts & today Plimouth Plantation is a recreation of an English C17 village
During the Civil Wars 1642 to 1655 Plymouth, like most urban centres was for Parliament . The rural areas of the south west in particular Cornwall just across the river Tamar where generally for the King, Royalists.
In Plymouth this resulted in it being besieged . 1643 Prince Maurice laid siege to the town and this was followed by a period of Royalist occupation. Then in 1646 Sir Thomas Fairfax captured the town for the Parliamentarians.
It was a bloody and gruesome time with rampant disease weak & incompetent leaders, courageous engagements and nasty skirmishes. ...........
"Sir Richard Grenville amassed a formidable force in the last major attempt to break the resistance. Thousands of soldiers surged towards Plymouth and its badly armed defenders. The Plymothians displayed astonishing bravery and by the end of the fighting it was the blood of Grenville’s men that was shed. Plymouth stood firm for nearly four years and with the King finally defeated, they found themselves on the winning side. Their triumph however was short lived. The monarchy was restored in 1660 and the new King, Charles II exacted revenge for Plymouth’s resistance. Many of its heroes were imprisoned on Drake’s Island, some until their deaths " ( BBC Inside Out )
AJP NOTES on LEONARD Pomeroy
Leonard Pomeroy was Mayor-of-Plymouth with Abraham Colmer, Nicolas Sherwill - They were successful Plymouth merchants who may have instigated & certainly contributed to the founding of the colony in Maine in around 1620
Leonard was a Merchant Adventurer, one of the benefactor's of the Hospital and Workhouse in Plymouth, his ( Pomeroy) coat of Arms was installed in the meeting room of the Workhouse, circa 1630, This is recorded as an- undifferentiated from the armorial line; suggesting a senior branch -
There were two Leonard Pomeroys; and we have not been able to connect the senior (Mayor) to the armorial Pomeroy tree despite extensively researching .
One Leonard Pomeroy was Bb1599 & dead by 1629. John Blytheman, mayor of Plymouth and another , forwarded on September 1598 to the Council ..' Pomeroy's demand for his bark ( small ship ) sent hence to discover the enemy ' The amount asked was !164.13s 8d but the bark had not been successful ( State papers Domestic Eliz 1598 -16-1)
From Archives
862/24 1597 Contents: Lease, Saltram, Plymouth: consideration, £80, rent 40s per year; 1) Sir John Gilbert of Greenway, Devon 2) Leonard Pomeroy of Plymouth, merchant.
Sir John , son of Otto , was older brother of adventurer Sir Humphrey Gilbert & his brothers Adrian Gilbert, half-brothers to Carew Raleigh and Sir Walter Raleigh.
LEONARD POMERIE marriage to AGNES BARONE 17 APR 1625 Saint Andrew, Plym ? 2nd marriage ?
A son LEONARD PUMMERYE - son of WILLIAM PUMMERYE Bb: 10 DEC 1633 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
Plymouth HISTORY in Brief
It began like many places as a fishing village that belonged to the Prior of Plympton. In those days there were very few shops so if you wanted to buy or sell goods you had to go to a market.
By the early 13th century the village had grown into a town and by 1254 was chartered & had a market . This attracted merchants and craftsmen to settle, live and work in Plymouth the town grew steadily, with wine from France and Spain being a major import .
Plymouth also benefited from a law of 1390, which said that pilgrims who traveled abroad must leave from either Plymouth or Dover.
Medieval Plymouth was attacked by the French several times the worst on August 1403 when French ships sailed up the estuary and landed north of the town. They marched into Plymouth and occupied the area around Exeter Street. The English fought back but were unable to dislodge the French, who stayed overnight.
After burning much of the town the French sailed away the next day. Afterwards that part of the town was called Breton Side. Plymouth was soon rebuilt and began to flourish once more.
PLYMOUTH IN THE 16th CENTURY
After John Cabot's discovery of abundant fish of Newfoundland in 1497 fishing became the important industry in Tudor Plymouth . There wine, fruit, sugar, and paper was being imported from France and Spain; hops were imported from Holland; coal was brought by ship from Newcastle and grain from eastern England.
By 1641 Plymouth was ‘chiefly dependent on the fish trade’ and exports of English wool and tin from Dartmoor
In the early 16th century Plymouth probably had a population of about 3,500. By the time of the Spanish Armada (1588), the population had risen to about 5,000. By the time of the civil war in 1642, its population probably surpassed 7,000. By the standards of the time, Plymouth was quite a large town.
When in 1642 the English Civil War civil the citizens of Plymouth , like most urban areas, supported parliament However most of the surrounding rural hinterland supported the king.
When the citizens of Plymouth accepted that they could soon be attacked they dug a ditch outside the town walls. An earth rampart with a wooden palisade on top strengthened at intervals by forts.
The Parliament sent reinforcements until there were 9,000 soldiers stationed . The Royalists laid siege to Plymouth in August 1643 but failed to take Plymouth. There was an attempt to starve the population out but that too failed because the citizens could fish. At the close of January 1646 the royalists withdrew. The Commonwealth period followed when Parliament, the Puritans and Oliver Cromwell ruled the country.
In 1653 a yarn market was built to sell raw wool, spun yarn and woollen cloth; in 1658 a new meat market was built with a leather hall above it, where all important leather could be bought and sold. Like the wool merchants leather merchants flourished, everyone needed shoes, boots, as well as saddles for horses as well as harnesses for carts & carriages, and a vast assortment of other items all required leather . It was in the same year, 1658, that a new grammar school ,to teach Latin Grammar, was built.
In 1660 England invited King Charles to return , the Monarchy was reinstated and in 1664 church of Charles the Martyr was built .
In the 17th-century trade developed with the colonies in the West Indies and North America. Sugar and tobacco were imported and wool and manufactured goods were exported. There still a coastal trade. Coal from other parts of Britain was brought to Plymouth by sea. In 1669 a foreign writer said that Plymouth was ‘Among the best cities of England.’
In 1689 it was decided to build a dockyard at Devonport and by 1693 a dry dock had been built .
The Admiralty built a storehouse, quarters for officers, and by 1698, a rope house where ropes were made.
Lady travel writer Celia Fiennes who explored England on horseback in the late 17th century keeping a journal of her travels described Plymouth: ‘The streets are good and clean. There are a great many though some are but narrow. They are mostly inhabited by seamen and those which have affairs of the sea’.
She also wrote: ‘The mouth of the river is a very good harbour for ships, the dockyards are about 2 miles from the town. It’s one of the best in England, a great many good ships are built there’.
PLYMOUTH IN THE 18th CENTURY
In the 1720s Daniel Defoe wrote: ‘Plymouth is a town of consideration and of great importance to the public. It is situated between 2 very large inlets of the sea and at the bottom of a large bay, which is very remarkable’.
William Pomeroy 1580 Will
Pomeroy William Plymouth DEV 1580 W ab EPRE MUR1 Vol. 25
Will dated 13 August 1580. Principal Registry B. of Exeter.
Proved 21 Jan 1580-1
To be buried in the Churchyard of St. Andrews Plymouth
To the Mawdlyn of Plymouth xijd. ( 22 pence to St Mary Magdalin leper House)
To my son WILLIAM POMEROY a horse, & all thereunto belonging, & xxs. (20shillings)
To my daughter TAMSIN Pomeroy iiijl(£40) & my best myddel penne of brasse.
To my wife JANE to have the house which I do hold by lease of the deyme of Chapter (etc) and after her death to my sonnes William and LYNNARD. (Leonard.)
To Elizabeth, wife of John Rowe sx.
The rest to my wife Jone Pomeroy. sole exectrix.
Nicholas Kanne and Thomas Pomeroy my dear friends to be my overseers.
Wittnesses John Raw Will Peryman Robert Coyming
The Plymouth Black Book, Includes Freemen of the boroughRecords 1519-1905 Archive reference W1/46
1591 John Bonython; Will Edgecumbe; John Fford. Poss. William Pomeroy & Roger Pomroy
1603 Henrie Pomeroye with Leonard as Mayor 1623 Thomas Pomeroy & Owen Pomeroy
MAYORS
1615 Abraham Colman merchant Mayor
1618 Nicholas Sherwill merchant Mayor
1620 Robert Rawlyn merchant Mayor
1621 John Bownder merchant Mayor
1622 John Martyn merchant Mayor
1623 Leonard Pomeroy merchant Mayor
1624 Thomas Ceely Merchant Mayor
1625 Nicholas Blake merchant Mayor
1626 Thomas Sherwill merchant Mayor
1627 Robert Trelawny merchant Mayor
1628 Abraham Comer merchant Mayor
1628 Nicholas Sherwill merchant Mayor
1627 William Hele merchant Mayor
The name of this Pomeroy is to be found in a list of 1611 , of those merchants trading with France .
In 1620 Leonard Pomeroy was one of 13 Masters of the Corporation of Plymouth. Leonard Pomeroy Mayor of Plymouth 1623-24 Died 1629.
LEONARD POMEROY Mayor of Plymouth 1623-24 we know this Leonard Pomeroy had a Coat of Arms which supports the idea that he was one of armorial Pomeroys. He was one of three Merchants from Plymouth who financed the beginnings of a fishing plantation on Richmond's Island in Maine and owned LAND in Maine.
2014 we are now of the opinion that Leonard was youngest son of William who was youngest son of Sir Edward Pomeroy and his wife Joan Sapcote daughter of Sir John Sapcot youngest brother of Sir Thomas ( the Foolish) who sold the barony to Seymour in 1547 and Hugh of Tregony
WILLIAM POMEROY Master of a sailing vessel out of Stonehouse in Plymouth in 1625 sailing with letters of marque.
I found another ref to a William Pomeroy in as an officer on a ship ? during the Civil Wars of 1643 to 1651 on a naval website that I need to retrieve /revisit.
Abraham Pomeroy East Stonehouse Plymouth died at sea on the frigate Northamptonshire, his Will proved at Lambeth 1658
FMP Rates books
Leonard Pomeroy Archive ref 1-181 / Plymouth & West Devon Rate Books 1598- 1933
Address Trevill Street which was close to St Charles Church near Barbican in Plymouth
Same address in Rate books for 1610 to 1633
RECORDS BMDS
PLYMOUTH POMEROYS IN PARISH RECORDS OF PLYMOUTH
JANE POMERY - dau of CHRISTOPHER POMERY Christening: 16 NOV 1595 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
ELIZABETH POMERY - dau of CHRISTOPHER POMERY Christening: 14 FEB 1600 Saint Andrew, Plymouth,
CHRISTOPHER POMERY - son of CHRISTOPHER POMERY Christening: 24 JUL 1603 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon.
THOMAS POMERIE -son of CHRISTOPHER POMERIE Christening: 03 SEP 1606 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon
GRACE POMERY -dau of CHRISTOPHER POMERY Christening: 11 JUN 1609 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
ANDREW POMERIE - son of CHRISTOPHER PUMROY Christening: 01 JAN 1626 Saint Andrew, Plymouth,
JOAN POMERYE dau of CHRISTOPHER POMERYE Christening: 04 OCT 1626 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
GEORGE PUMROY - son of CHRISTOPHER PUMROY Christening: 08 NOV 1629 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
JOHN PUMROY - son of CHRISTOPHER PUMROYChristening: 20 APR 1632 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
Looks like at least two families of William Pomeroy unless it was two marriages for the same chap…
JOHN PUMERY -son of WILLIAM PUMERY Christening: 02 MAY 1588 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon
JAMES POMERY -son of WILLIAM POMERY Christening: 27 APR 1590 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon
ANNE PUMERY - dau of WILLIAM PUMERY Christening: 06 JAN 1586 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon
Marriage WILLIAM POMERY -to JOAN LUSCOMBE Marriage: 01 DEC 1594 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
WILLIAM POMERY -son of WILLIAM POMERY Christening: 09 FEB 1595
MARGERY POMERY - dau of WILLIAM POMERY Christening: 01 NOV 1596
JOHN POMERYE -son of WILLIAM POMERYE Christening: 24 SEP 1600 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
ABRAHAM POMERYE - son of WILLIAM POMERYE Christening: 20 FEB 1603
EDMOND POMERY - son of WILLIAM POMERY Christening: 28 APR 1605
A GAP OF 14 years so three separate families
A marriage around 1620 to produce this family wife possibly named Jane
JANE POMERYE - dau of WILLIAM POMERYE Christening: 08 AUG 1621 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
ARMYNELL POMERYE - dau of WILLIAM POMERYE Christening: 05 NOV 1623 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon.
JOAN POMERIE - dau of WILLIAM POMERIE Christening: 03 DEC 1626 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
THOMASIN POMROY - dau of WILLIAM POMROY Christening: 28 JUL 1629 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
WILLIAM PUMERIE -son of WILLIAM PUMERIE Christening: 20 JUL 1632 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
WILLIAM POMEROY - son of WILLIAM POMEROY Christening: 15 MAY 1633 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
He doest fit into this family group
LEONARD PUMMERYE - son of WILLIAM PUMMERYE Christening: 10 DEC 1633 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
Marriage WILLIAM POMERY - to SARAH WATSON Marriage: 19 MAY 1667 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
Again either two families or two marriages
HUGH POMERYE - son of THOMAS POMERYE Christening: 15 JUL 1590 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
THOMAS POMERY -son of THOMAS POMERY Christening: 05 MAR 1584 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
JOAN POMERYE - dau of THOMAS POMERYE Christening: 15 JUL 1590 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
Marriage THOMAS PAMERYE -to REBECCA PEERS Marriage: 24 SEP 1593 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
MARGERY POMERIE - dau of THOMAS POMERIE Christening: 27 JAN 1621 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
JOHN POMERYE - son of THOMAS POMERYE Christening: 13 OCT 1624 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
MARY POMERYE -dau of THOMAS POMERYE Christening: 14 DEC 1623 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
EMBBYN POMERY -dau of THOMAS POMERY Christening: 24 JUN 1602 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
WILLIAM POMERYE - son of THOMAS POMERYE Christening: 10 AUG 1600 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
THOMAS POMERYE -son of THOMAS POMERYE Christening: 23 MAR 1604 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
THOMAS POMERYE -son of THOMAS POMERYE Christening: 24 FEB 1607 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
THOMAS POMERYE -son of THOMAS POMERYE Christening: 12 JUL 1618 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
THOMAS POMERYE -son of THOMAS POMERYE Christening: 26 NOV 1620 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
FLORENCE POMERIE - dau of THOMAS POMERIE Christening: 31 AUG 1611 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
GUNNET POMERY - dau of THOMAS POMERYChristening: 20 DEC 1608 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
HUMPHRY POMERY - son of JOHN POMERY Christening: 06 OCT 1596 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
JOSEPH POMERY - son of THOMAS POMERY Christening: 22 DEC 1598 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
JOSEPH POMERIE - son of THOMAS POMERIE Christening: 27 JAN 1621 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
JOAN PUMERY - dau of NICHOLAS PUMERY Christening: 24 OCT 1586 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
OWEN PUMERY - son of NICHOLAS PUMERY hristening: 25 FEB 1582 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
WILLIAM POMERY - son of NICHOLAS POMERY Christening: 19 DEC 1588 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
MARGERY POMERYE - dau of NICHOLAS POMERYE Christening: 01 SEP 1591 Saint Andrew, Plymouth,
MARRIAGES
HENRY POMERY –to MARGERY DABLE Marriage: 06 AUG 1599 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
BEATON PUMEROYE –(f) to EDWARD DAMBRELL Marriage: 05 FEB 1638 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
CHRISTIAN POMERY – (f) to HENRY SALMON Marriage: 13 NOV 1587 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
JOHN PUMERY - to ALSE Marriage: 19 SEP 1582 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
JOHN POMERYE - to FLOWER MANKE Marriage: 25 JAN 1590 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
JOHN PUMRY - to RICHEARD FLORRIE Marriage: 09 OCT 1630 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
JOHN PUMREY - to ELIZ GRINSLEY Marriage: 29 APR 1633 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
ALCE POMERYE to JOHN KNIGHTE Marriage: 11 JAN 1591 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
KATHEREN POMROY -to JONAS JOSEPH Marriage: 02 FEB 1667 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
THOMASINE POMEROY -to WILLIAM HIX ( Hicks) Marriage: 06 APR 1645 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
ANNE POMERYE - to WILLIAM STEWARD Marriage: 28 MAY 1603 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
RACHELL POMERY -to ROGER CROTIS Marriage: 06 APR 1669 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon
BARBARA POMROY dau of John Pomeroy of Stonehouse OTP married by banns at St Andrews Plymouth to George Ward of London 14 Oct 1654
JOAN POMERIE - to WILLIAM ALSOPP Marriage: 20 APR 1613 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
JOAN POMERYE to THOMAS LOVE 29 0CT 1599 St Andrews Plymouth
WILLIAM POMERY -to JOAN LUSCOMBE Marriage: 01 DEC 1594 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
WILLIAM POMERY - to SARAH WATSON Marriage: 19 MAY 1667 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
EDWARD PUMEROYE - to JOAN SYMONS Marriage: 24 JUL 1643 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
THOMASINE POMERY - to ROBERT COUCH Marriage: 20 DEC 1596 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
THOMASINE POMERYE to JOHN REDDICOAT 29 Jan 1598 Saint Andrew, Plymouth
THOMASINE POMERYE to NICOLAS JENKING 31 July 1636 Saint Andrew, Plymouth
THOMASINE POMERYE to WILLIAM HIX OR HICKES 6 April 1645 Saint Andrew, Plymouth
MARGERY PUMERY – to NICHOLAS MANDER Marriage: 29 JUN 1584 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
ALICE POMEROY to JOHN POOLY 14 Sept 1595 1584 Saint Andrew, Plymouth Devon
ANNE POMEERYE to WILLIAM STEWARD 28 March 1603 Saint Andrew, Plymouth Devon
THOMAS PAMERYE -to REBECCA PEERS Marriage: 24 SEP 1593 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon,
THOMAS POMERIE – to JOAN MOUNTIONE Marriage: 13 JAN 1612 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
THOMAS POMERYE - to MARY MALLETT Marriage: 22 OCT 1616 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
THOMAS POMERIE – to ANN COLLESON Marriage: 26 APR 1618 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
JOAN POMERY - to ROBERT CLINNICK Marriage: 30 DEC 1644 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
JOSEPH POMMERY -to THOMASINE JEFFERY Marriage: 20 APR 1629 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
THOMASINE PUMEROY - to NICHOLAS JENKING Marriage: 31 JUL 1636 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
ELIZ POMERIE -to WILLIAM PARMETER Marriage: 20 FEB 1608 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
LEONARD POMERIE -to AGNES BARONE Marriage: 17 APR 1625 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
ANN PUMEROYE - to WILLIAM BLATCHELLER Marriage: 11 JAN 1641 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
ORION POMERYE -to CISLIE LOVELL Marriage: 09 OCT 1614 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
LEWIS PUMERYE - to Eleanor Marriage: 19 OCT 1589 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
ELIZABETH POMREY - to JONATHAN PENROSE Marriage: 25 SEP 1655 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
KATHERINE POMERYE -to ROBERT RANDELL Marriage: 23 FEB 1600 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
MARTHA POMEROY - to SAMUEL STRONGE Marriage: 01 DEC 1647 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
FAITH POMERYE - to PETER ANTONYE Marriage: 30 AUG 1596 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
Plymouth Box Records 2024
JAMES POMERY - son of WILLIAM POMERY Christening: 27 APR 1590 Saint Andrew, Plymouth, Devon
Saint Andrew’s Church , Plymouth, Devon.
James Pomeroy IPM 1590 source unknown
Hodgson, A.R.S. Ilsington. -
Held by: WSL: Pomeroy of Ingsdon Manor, Ilsington, Devon. - [Devon] : [Typescript] , 1974. -
Held by: WSL: px929.2/ING. - Subjects: Devon.
Roberts, Robert. Stockleigh Pomeroy. Diary and household account book of Robert Roberts, yeoman, of Stockleigh Pomeroy, Devon. - [Devon] : [Typescript] , 1622-1646 : trans. Original in N.D.A. . - [Devon] : [Typescript] , 1939. Not acquired WSL : D92/ROB 2. - Subjects: Devon.
Repository: Plymouth Archives, The Box Ref 1/361/51 date 161
Title: Plymouth Borough records: Plymouth Merchants, Agreement relating to Exorbitant Fees for Strangers Damaging Trade of Plymouth
description: To defray the expenses of an action to be brought against the Customs officials for demanding exorbitant fees from strangers for bushels of corn, grain and salt, which damages the merchants of Plymouth by driving the strangers from the town and 'if remedie be not speedelie procured the ruyne [ruin] and utter decaye of this Towne must followe'. Signed by all the leading Plymouth merchants: John Blytheman, John Waddon, John Trelawny, Robert Trelawny, Thomas Sherwill, Thomas Fownes, Jonathan Battersby, Jonathan Clement, John Fowell, William Cary, Thomas Reynardson, Abraham Colmer, William Brevys, Leonard Pomeroy, Jonathan Maddock, Thomas Wolridge, Richard Breamton, Nicholas Sherwill, Robert Rawlyn, John Bound, William Hele, Phido Thomas, John Jope, Moses Goodyear, Richard Raddon, Jerome Roch, Richard Gayer, John Paige, Thomas Cramphorne, Philip Andrew, John Harris, Walter Carkeet, Richard Moorhouse.
Admin History: Date: 4 Jan 1613 Level: Item Format: Manuscript
Repository: Plymouth Archives, The Box. Ref 1/642/45 date 1607
Title: Plymouth Borough records: Legal Case, Leonard Pomeroy
description: Leonard Pomeroy of Cornwall, Knight, heard before John Trelawney and John Martin.
Admin History: • Date: 29 May 1607 • Level: Item • Format: Manuscript
Repository: Plymouth Archives, The Box Ref 81/PWT/90 Date 1779
Title: West Teignmouth, Lower Pomeroy Stone, Lease
description: Lease and release 1 Charles Scott of Kenton, gent 2 James Newbery of Chudleigh, gent 3 Joseph Adams of West Teignmouth, gent 4 John Zephaniah Holwell of West Teignmouth, esquire Lower Pomeroy Stone, and Lugy Orchard, West Teignmouth Consideration: £100 and £77.
Admin History: Date: 1779 Level: Item Format: Manuscript
Repository: Plymouth Archives, The Box Ref 1/360/27 date 1624
Title: Plymouth Borough records: Copy Letter from Leonard Pomeroy, Mayor, to Maurice Abbot, Governor of East India Merchants Company, regarding Legacy of Edmund Leunis to Newly Erected Hospital of the Orphans Aid
description:
From Leonard Pomeroy, Mayor and the Aldermen of Plymouth, to the Right Worshipful Morris [Maurice] Abbot, Governor of the East India Merchants Company, regarding the legacy of £20 bequeathed by Edmund Leunis late of Plymouth, to the poor people of the newly erected Hospital of the Orphans Aid.
Admin History: • Date: 19 Jul 1624 • Level: Item • Format: Manuscript
Newfoundland
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Repository: Plymouth Archives, The Box; Ref 1/360/74
Title: Plymouth Borough records: Depositions before the Commissioners at Totnes, regarding Newfoundland and its Fisheries, by Devon Mariners
description: Depositions, taken at Totnes, by John [Cutt] of Dartmouth, mariner; Nicholas Luce of Dartmouth, mariner; Thomas Pitcher of Dartmouth, mariner; Richard Parker of Dartmouth, mariner; Christopher Selman of Dartmouth, mariner; Thomas Fowles of St Marychurch, Devon, mariner; Thomas Cruse of Ashprington, Devon, mariner; Gabriell Viddomas of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, mariner; touching Newfoundland and the fisheries thereof, taken at Totnes, before Sir Edward Seymour, Sir William Courtney and Sir Thomas Reynell, John Hall, Thomas Boone and Gilbert Eveleigh, esquires, Commissioners. The deposition of Thomas Cruse of Ashprington states 'yt above 50 years last past he went to ye Newffdland in a ship of Topsham in a ffishing voyadge, att which time there was noe Govrnour there, or above 2 or 3 poor people yt inhabited there, and such salt boates, staiges and other Materialls of the ye ffishing trade, lefft by the ships the fformer year, they usually found in ye like Condition without any diminution ye ffollowing year. And Aboutt 32 yeares past he went from London to the Newfld and arrived there in ye harbour of Bay of bulls, wheare he inhabited 18 yeares, which was about 4 yeares before Sir David Kirke, the ffirst Governour that Came there after ye Lord Baltemore [Baltimore], who was there only one winter and then left the Countrey, saying itt was an unffit place for man or beast to live in. During all which time of this deponent aboade there noe nation did ever in ye Least attempt to molest or trouble ye English there in thare ffishery, neither were thare any ffortiffications Erected untill the Coming there of Sir David Kirke, who planted some ffere [fire] gunns att fferiland [Ferryland] and 2 or 3 other places And that before Sir David Kirke Came there, noe one paid any Custome or Tax Concerning the said ffishery or otherwise, butt all was free. But after Sir David Kirke arrived there (who brought with him about 30 servants), he imposed taxes on all ye inhabitants to pay a greate ffine and yearly rents ffor the houses and ground by ye water side, in severall harbours and ffishing places, as this deponent did ffor a house and some ground Graunted to him by ye said Sir David Kirke as by writing made in the year 1640, ffor which he paid the yearly rent off £3 6s 8d and a ffatt hog or 20s in lew thereoff. And the said Sir David Kirke did summon ye Inhabitants of ye severall harbours in ye Newfoundland to repaire at fferiland, and Compelled them to take Estates in land in severall harbours, for Erecting of houses and ffishing-places by ye waterside and to pay greate ffines and Rents of the same, and in case of reffusall threttned to expel them out off ye land; and alsoe enticed them to take licences off him ffor ye sellling off wine and other liqours, and made them pay greate rents yearly ffor the same, and made this deponent take and pay for such a licence £15 per annum. And ye said Sir David Kirke himselfe did keepe a common Taverne, in his own house, which did drawe and keepe ship-masters, ffishermen and others ffrom theire ffishing imploymentw to the great prejudice and hinderance of their voyadges'.
Admin History: Sir David Kirke is believed to have visited Ferryland, as he published a report on the island of Newfoundland in 1635. In November 1637 Kirke and his partners were granted a royal charter for co-proprietorship of the entire island. A portion of Newfoundland, the Avalon Peninsula, had already been granted to George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, but he was accused of abandoning his colony before his death in 1632, and the lands were transferred to Kirke. The charter of this new grant had stipulations designed to reduce conflict with migratory fishermen; there was to be no settlement within six miles of the shore, fishing rooms were not to be occupied before the arrival of the summer fishing crews, and a five per cent tax was to be collected on all fish products taken by foreigners. Kirke was installed as the Proprietary Governor and arrived in 1638 with one hundred colonists. The original governorship of the Avalon Peninsula had passed to Baltimore's son, Cecilius Calvert, who had installed William Hill as governor. Kirke seized the governor's mansion, then occupied by Hill. In January 1638, the king also granted Kirke a coat of arms, "For the greater honour and splendour of that Countrey and the people therein inhabiting … to be used in all such cases as Armes are wont to be by other nations and Countries." In 1639, Kirke renamed the colony the Pool Plantation. Over the next several years, he built forts at Ferryland, St. John’s, and Bay de Verde. He collected tolls from all fishing vessels. Kirke was granted the rights to "the sole trade of the Newfoundland, the Fishing excepted." The latter words resulted in considerable trouble. At the time the Grand Banks of Newfoundland were being fished by many European nations, and Kirke's 5% tax gave an advantage to the English fishermen in the area. A number of West Country merchants thrived on the fish trade. Represented in London by Kirke, Barkeley, and Company, with several of his brothers in control, Kirke used his land rights to support the fish trade, in conflict with the terms of his charter. By 1638, strong links between Ferryland and Dartmouth, Devon, had already been established. Kirke brought the entire trade network south of St. John's under the control of a growing family commercial empire. These actions aroused strong animosity from the West Country merchants. The planters and migratory fishermen agreed that Kirke was reserving the best fishing rooms for himself and his friends. In addition, he was accused of opening taverns, which were disruptive to the settlers' work. But before these charges could be investigated, in 1642 the English Civil War broke out between the king and parliament. The Civil War ended in 1651, and the Kirkes, as royalists, were on the losing side. Although the merchants' complaints were put aside during the war, they were revived at the end of it, and the Kirkes were no longer protected by the crown. In 1651 a team of six commissioners, led by Maryland merchant John Treworgie, was sent to Ferryland to seize Kirke and bring him to England to stand trial. His lands were acquired by the Commonwealth of England. Found not guilty, in 1653 Kirke re-purchased the title to his lands. His wife, Dame Sara Kirke, returned to Newfoundland to oversee his business and reclaim his property, but Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore, brought new charges against Kirke over the title of the lands around Ferryland. Kirke is thought to have died in the original Southwark jail, The Clink, as early as January 1654, while awaiting trial.
Date: 27 Nov 1667 • Level: Item • Format: Manuscript
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Settlement certificate: Nicholas Pomry: Harberton. 1660
Berry Pomeroy: Truestreet, 1661-1763
Repository: Devon Heritage Centre
Reference number : 3799M/0/L/71
Date 1661-1763 Access status. Open; Level : Series
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